July 27, 2024
Tag: Maud Adams
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The Maud Adams You Don’t Know
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Maude Adams (not Maud Adams the Bond Girl, she doesn’t have the “e”) was an astonishingly successful stage actor who burst onto the New York stage in 1896 with J. M. Barrie’s The Little Minister and in 1905 played the title role in Barrie’s Peter Pan. Alphonse Mucha painted her. She toured with her own…
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January 30, 2020 7 Comments
Nathaniel Sener mailed a Jewish Welfare Board postcard home to his mother in 1919. He was not alone; it could be that as many as 800,000 soldiers and sailors, members of the US Army and Navy, did the same. Nat, as his family called him, lived on a western Maryland farm and most of his life was a mirror of the early 20th century. Learn about this interesting set of postcards and Nat Sener, too. Our newest feature will show just how much history a postcard can teach.